Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty – Mission Pack

Lexx presents:

Beyond the Call of Duty – Mission Pack

Welcome, Officer! On this website you can download my custom mission pack for the 1999 released Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty. This pack includes 6 new missions, sending you to various fictitious locations in Germany, 1943.

I’ve started working on the mission pack after it came to my attention, that various fan-made modding tools had been released in recent years, which allow the creation of new content for Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines and Beyond the Call of Duty. As I am a huge fan of the games, I simply had to craft my own material with them – there really was no other choice. All missions were created between May 2012 to May 2013, and are assembled mainly from original art assets.

If you do not own the game, you can get it over at the boys and girls from GOG for just a few bucks. It is worth it! (No, I do not get money for the advertisment.)

Download & Installation

STEP ONE: Run the Mission Pack Installer and chose your Commandos: BCD game path (usually the “coman_mp” folder, but not necessarily). The installer will extract the “war_mp.dir” file and then patch the “MISIONES.DAT” in “DATOS\MISIONES\”. The new missions will always be played first if you start a new game. If you have finished them, the game will continue with the next available mission, which is usually the main games content.

STEP TWO: Use the Resolution-Hack and play the game in a higher resolution! My personal suggestion for widescreen users: 1280x720px

Questions, problems, bugs or anything like that? Write me. – And if you like what you get here, please don’t mind about dropping a donation or two:

Changelog

UPDATE #3: 03.01.2015

Mission “A quiet Day”:

The train conductor is visible again.

Generic changes:

Normal Save / Load and Quicksave should be possible again.

UPDATE #2: 28.04.2014

Mission “Cold Landing”:

Tweaked soldier placement.

Mission “Panzerzug”:

Added: All tents are accessible now.

Fixed: Object and sector issues.

Upgraded map visuals and

Tweaked soldier placement.

Mission “Heavy Hands”:

Added: Telephone to the north and south of the map.

Added: All tents are accessible now.

Minor graphic tweaks and

Tweaked soldier placement.

Mission “Hammerfall”:

Added: Destructible buildings.

Added: Rain weather effect

Fixed: The train now stops at the station now every turn

Upgraded map visuals and layout.

Tweaked soldier placement.

Mission “Lights Out”:

Fixed: A small, but annoying sector issue.

Fixed: A tiny graphic issue.

Upgraded map visuals and layout.

Tweaked soldier placement.

Generic changes:

Added: Tool-tips for mission objectives in all maps.

Added: Music tracks from Commandos 2 and 3.

Added: New SDKFZ 3 vehicle graphic.

Added: New bonus mission.

Added: New character hotkey system.

Adjusted the inventory set of the Commandos (only the Driver and Sapper have handcuffs now).

UPDATE #1: 14.03.2014

The installer will now extract and rename the WAR_MP.DIR file automatically.

I can’t make it easier than it already is. Download the setup, run it, point to your BCD installation folder and install the mod. Then you start it with the normal Coman_mp.exe file. That’s it. If this doesn’t work for you, then you’ll have to provide more information on the problem you have.

Hello
I have problem with version 2.149. I cant install her. I have BCDMissions_v2.149.exe , when i start, select folder with games, then click install … very quick! i saw ” skipped:… ” , but my folder with games still has the same size…
WTF ? In my opinion DIrextractor doesnt unpack wir_mp.dir … i dont know why…
i dont unpack wir_mp.dir in dirextractor manually .. “write: permission denied” …

When i install version 1.1.2 instalation is good, it takes a little longer, but all is okey.
It’s worth to play this old version ??

There is no Conductor in that place in Mission “A quiet day” right from the start!!! And walkthrough without alarm doesn’t change anything :((
I’ve read in comments above it’s seemed to be a common problem?

Sorry for the hassle. I have punched together a small Hotfix: www.advexx.de/sonstiges/commandos/Hotfix.rar
This should fix the Save / Load and also bring back the Conductor. Thanks to Mike_HDF from the Revora forum, he pointed this silly issue out for me (the installer is missing one single file, which I didn’t noticed on my installation…). It should work now after extracting the Hotfix.rar into your Commandos folder.

Hi! First of all, awesome, awesome job with these custom missions! I love them!

I have one problem though. The custom missions used to work just well for me. Recently I have reinstalled my Windows (Win 7 Ultimate), same version, same installer as before. Now, when I install the custom missions using BCDMissions_v2.151.exe and I attempt to start the game, it does not start, I get an error instead:
“The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application”
If I uninstall the mission pack, the game works again. If I re-install it, it does not work again.
I’ve tried using 2 different base installations for the original Commandos Call of Duty and installed the mission pack over both of them, no luck, it still won’t run.
It’s the same hardware, same Windows, same everything as before, when it worked.
Any idea what I could do to fix it?
Thank you!

Thank you Lexx! I think you’re right about what could be the problem. As soon as I install the mission pack, the WAR_MP.dir disappears and I have a WAR_MP.backup instead, but no war_mp.dir. If I uninstall the mission pack, I get back the war_mp.dir. I did run the installer as admin, but the problem remains. Do you have any other suggestion about how to get around this?

By the way will you make more missions in the future? I can imagine that it’s hard, but your work is awesome.

You can manually extract the war_mp.dir file after installing the mod. There should be a “ComDirEx.exe” file in the installation folder. Drag & Drop the “WAR_BACKUP.DIR” on it, then the files will get extracted.

I might create new missions in the future, but not anytime soon. But truth told, I don’t think modding Commandos is very hard- it’s just very time consuming and includes A LOT tedious labour. You have to do many things by hand, more than once, that’s probably what scares away many people who otherwise would be interested in creating their own content.

Yes, I did already try manually extracting the WAR_BACKUP.DIR, it seems to do something for a second or two (a black command window pops up briefly). But the error is the same after that.
Too bad the installer’s log disappears (auto-closes) right after it finishes. Maybe it shows some error in the log, but I can’t see it this way…

I have tried it on another Windows machine, there it worked, so I zipped the whole BTCOD dir and copied it to the machine where it didn’t work. Well, it still does not work with the mission pack. I wish I understood what’s wrong. I’m administrator on both machines. And it’s the same windows installation. Perhaps some runtime or DirectX is different…

If you copy all files over it, and it still doesn’t work, the problem must be somewhere else. Try to delete the “ddraw.dll” in the main folder and see if the game runs or something changes. It’s just a wild guess, though.

Lexx, you’re a freakin’ genius! I deleted ddraw.dll and voila! It works! Thank you from the bottom of my heart, man! My father is also very happy. He also plays Commandos and needless to say he loves your missions most :)

Lexx, you’re a freakin’ genius! I deleted ddraw.dll and voila! It works! Thank you from the bottom of my heart, man! My father is also very happy. He also plays Commandos and needless to say he loves your missions most :)

SIR, I JUST FINISHED 2ND MISSION OF YOURS.
I REALL LIKE YOUR MOD MAPS. EVERY MAP HAS AS GOOD AS ORIGINAL MAPS OR EVEN A WAY BETTER
THAN ORIGINAL WORKS. THANKS DUDE.
YOUR WORKS ARE REALLY AMAZING. I WON A NEW GAME EXPANSION FREELY THANKS TO YOU.
YOU AND CHINESE GUY WHO MADE BEL MISSION PACK ARE MY SAVIOR.
THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH. ^^

fantastic job on creating these missions.
completed the first six missions.

am having an issue on the 8th mission: escape flinkenfels.
the sapper can use the bomb he already has at the start of the mission – to blow up either the hq or the radio tower.
but after picking up the other bomb in the crate, the sapper is unable to use it.
whether i press the “B” key or click on the bomb icon, nothing happens.

This mod looks so fun, but it just plain doesn’t work. I cannot install this no matter what.
I install BTCOD, then I install the modpack, it doesn’t work, I reinstall it while running as admin, the files are there but the game doesn’t work.

Really no idea, sorry. It should work right out of the box after installation. Last time I’ve checked it with the GOG version – it worked without probems. Like I wrote before, you might have to install it as admin, and you might need to switch the OS language to something other than german (if you are using german), but that should be it then. What you could also try is installing the resolution hack over it – Maybe that will do something to help.

Okay, so I’d like to apologize for nagging you to death about my game not working out. I eventually figured out how to install the mod (running the file I installed as admin) into my coman_mp folder.
My problem was that I wasn’t running the game in the appropriate compatibility mode. Upon switching it to windows 95 the save games work and so does the mod. Great job on it.

The thing i want to ask is that I have mouse lag problem in BEL and BCD, however i realized that your mod works smooth, is it related to some dll files you use in your mod or do you have any other solution which i can try, thanks.

I have a problem on mission 4. When I destroy the ammo depot and the Karl Gerate and I try to leave the area,i get this message : You didn’t destroy all the targets. And i cannot move to the next mission. The bombs are on the targets they blow away but something is wrong. Any idea ? Thx for helping

Bro. Gotta say man…THIS mod is absolutely awesome…congratz..you’ve done so much for everyone that loves commandos…TY SO MUCH…
i wish i had money to donate…good job…
highest honors for you..
take care commander!